ISS ham repeater 9/8/24 9:45 pm MDT Santa Fe, NM. USA.

[@Stoptherideiwanttogetoff]

Can a scanner locate where encrypted signals are ?

[@radio645]

Yes, as long as you're using a digital trunk tracker scanner, but it depends on what kind of encrypted signals you want to monitor. Police? Fire? EMS? government? Most trunk tracker type scanners are expensive and difficult to program however. My two scanners are both analog but I can still hear most anything of interest even without encrypted modes.

[@Stoptherideiwanttogetoff]

@@radio645 thanks for replying. Im in U.K all emergency services radio encrypted. I want the scanner just give rough location of encrypted RF signals some scanners and radio have GPS built into hand scanners ? What would be best digital scanner sds100 ?

[@radio645]

@@Stoptherideiwanttogetoff I'm not that familiar with trunk tracking encrypted scanners and wasn't aware of any scanners having a built in GPS unit. I looked up the Uniden SDS100 I/Q digital scanner with all the features except GPS which you buy separately. Like most Uniden scanners you download frequencies according to a USA postal ZIP code. The UK probably doesn't have zip codes? or postal codes which may not work with UNIDEN programing. The SDS has a very hefty price, $649.00 dollars, that's even a lot of $ for me. I'm happy with the UDIDEN BC125AT and the SR30C for my monitoring needs. Sorry I'm not much help answering your question.

[@Stoptherideiwanttogetoff]

@@radio645 you have been great help , thank you for time and information.

[@radio645]

@@Stoptherideiwanttogetoff good luck with your scanner search let me know what you eventually end up with. Are you into SW listening as well?